Concert “Thoughts of the Winter Moon”

Fri 02 Feb 2018, 8 pm
The small Concert Hall
Vietnam National Academy of Music

From the organizer:

We are opening our 2018 with the concert:
THOUGHTS OF THE WINTER MOON

This is a program of Vietnamese music, featuring the works of:
– Nguyen Thien Dao
– Vu Nhat Tan
– Nguyen Minh Nhat
and The Ancient Music Group of Tonkin Dong Kinh Co Nhac

Conductor: Grammy award-winning Jeff Von Der Schmidt.

Program:

01. Ancient Vietnamese Music Harmony: “Đàn – Phách”
Đông Kinh Cổ Nhạc: NSND Xuân Hoạch, đàn đáy (plucked lute) – NS Hải Đăng, đàn Nhị (bowed two-string instrument) – NS Thùy Chi, đàn Tranh(a plucked zither) – NS Trọng Thủy.

02. Nguyễn Thiên Đạo:
“Tuyến Lửa” (Streak of Fire) (movement from complete piece for string quartet & percussion)
Phạm Trường Sơn, violin 1 – Vũ Thị Khánh Linh, violin 2 – Khúc Văn Khoa, viola – Đào Tuyết Trinh, cello – Lữ Mạnh Cường.

In 1969, with his performance of “Tuyến Lửa” at the Royan Festival, Nguyễn Thiện Đạo became a phenomenon in the international art world. The piece is an epic about the fierce struggle of Vietnamese people against the enemies.

03. Vũ Nhật Tân:
“Châm” for String Quartet
Trường Sơn, Khánh Linh, Văn Khoa, Tuyết Trinh

“Châm” was composed in 2001 when Vu Nhat Tan was studying composition and electronic music at Hochshulefuer Music, Cologne, Germany. Tan is inspired by a mixture of two elements: electronic music and Vietnamese traditional music. The composition is the result of these two elements.

04. Nguyễn Minh Nhật:
“Rise and Fall” for Flute, Clarinet, Percussion, Piano & String Quartet
Nguyễn Trọng Bằng, Flute – Nguyễn Quốc Bảo, Clarinet – Phạm Trường Sơn, Violin – Vũ Thị Khánh Linh, violin – Khúc Văn Khoa, viola – Đào Tuyết Trinh, Cello – Lữ Mạnh Cường, Gõ – Trần Thái Linh

“Rise and Fall” depicts a journey from a downfall to the process of rebuilding to rise again. Any downfall or failure tends to collapse quickly as it is constituted of factors, may it be personal or external that piles up overtime before reaching a limit. The piece starts first with the result that rapidly occurs due to past events and then is followed by causation, instead of the more typical cause-and-effect model. Therefore, what happens before the downfall and after the rebuilding stage is left unknown, leaving a sense of the music being unfinished and cyclical. The original idea and instrumentation have been thought to write for the Hanoi New Music Ensemble.

Seats are free of charge and can be reserved.

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